Video, Audio, Graphics, and Multimedia Resources

* Leaflets
* Posters and graphics
* Infographics
* Graphics for social media about women and the draft
* Flowcharts of draft registration and Selective Service procedures and choices
* Audio and Video of Podcasts, Webinars, Radio and TV
* Anti-draft songs and music videos

It’s up to you not to heed the call-up
You must not act the way you were brought up
Who knows the reasons why you have grown up?
Who knows the plans or why they were drawn up?

It’s up to you not to heed the call-up
I don’t want to die!
It’s up to you not to hear the call-up
I don’t want to kill!

For he who will die
Is he who will kill

[The Clash, The Call-Up, 1980]

• Audio and video of podcasts, webinars, radio, and TV:

  • Draft Women? Hell No! (Video of CODEPINK webinar, recorded 26 May 2020)
  • Congress leaning towards drafting women for next war (Courage to Resist podcast with Rivera Sun of CODEPINK, 26 April 2020, 35 min.; download mp3)
  • Audio explainer: What is the Selective Service System and how would a draft work? (Edward Hasbrouck at Truth In Recruitment town hall, Santa Maria, CA, 12 October 2019; 30 min. mp3)
  • Women and the Draft (Catholics Against Militarism podcast and vlog, 25 April 2020, 47 min.; download mp3; view video on YouTube)
  • C-SPAN video of my testimony and answers to questions from the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (25 April 2019)
  • The Future of Draft Registration in the U.S. (Courage to Resist podcast, 22 February 2018, 35 min.; download mp3)
  • Abolish the Draft! (Or Extend It To Everyone?) (Love and Revolution Radio, 2 July 2018, 60 min.; download mp3)
  • The draft, draft registration, draft resistance, and women and the draft (KZFR Radio, 7 February 2020; first 30 minutes of show; download mp3)
  • Extend Selective Service Registration to Women or End it for Men?
    (Talk Nation Radio: Edward Hasbrouck with David Swanson, 19 July 2016; 29 minutes)
  • Courage Under Fire: Resistance to War (National Radio Project, 2004; last 9 minutes beginning at 20:10 of show; download mp3)
  • David Swanson and Daniel Ellsberg
    (San Francisco Public Library, 28 May 2016. Ellsberg at 1:25:25 of full video: “Despite the fact that the draft did account for large rallies, it also was essential to a large war. And I think that if we got the draft back, in other words if we started drafting people we’d have a much larger military, and I believe that we would — dangerous and wrongful as it is for us to be operating with special forces in many, many countries around the world — if we were operating with brigades and divisions…. then what’ll go with that is a hell of a lot more bombing than you’ve seen yet. With the American troops would come bombing of the local country on a vastly greater scale…. The fact is that the overall scale would be enormously greater. A draft, I’m afraid, would facilitate that. That’s one lesson from Vietnam.”)

• Anti-draft songs and music videos from the 1980s and after

  • The Clash: The Call-Up (live in Boston: 7 September 1982, 8 September 1982)
    (recorded in New York; released as a single in 1980 and on the triple album set “Sandinista” in 1981. “It’s up to you / not to heed the call-up. / You don’t have to act / the way you were brought up….”)
  • Frank Zappa: I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted / Drafted Again
    (released as a single in 1980 as “I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted”, and on the album “You Are What You Is” in 1981 as “Drafted Again”. “My sister don’t wanna get drafted / She don’t wanna go….”)
  • Dead Kennedys: When Ya Get Drafted
    (released on the album “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables” in 1980)
  • Prince: Partyup
    (Lyrics by Prince and Morris Day; released on the album “Dirty Minds, 1980. “You gonna have to fight your own damn war… ‘Cause we don’t wanna fight no more.”)
  • Dave Lippman: Stick Into the Gear
    (released as a single in 1980 and on the Rounder Records anthology album, Songs for Peace”, 1983)

• Anti-draft videos and graphics on social media

  • @FeministsAgainstTheDraft on TikTok
  • @ResistersInfo on Twitter
  • More resources for social media about women and the draft

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